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Special Report 3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector StumblesSubmitted by Dan Schmidt. First Published: 1/14/2026. 3 Stocks to Avoid as Software Sector Stumbles The software sector has already seen more carnage this month than the finale of Game of Thrones — and we’re still only halfway through January. While many stocks in this industry have been suffering extended drawdowns since early 2025, large software companies got more bad news this week from ‘Claude Code’, the agentic coding tool for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet AI. Claude Code was actually launched last year, but a new update this month sent another wave of pain through some legacy software stocks. Is this selloff overdone, or are software stocks facing a prolonged bear market? Why ‘Claude Code’ Has the Software Sector Spooked Claude Code is sending shockwaves through the tech sector thanks to its fully autonomous, hands-off design. Unlike early AI agents that wrote snippets of code for specific tasks (for example, simple bug fixes), Claude Code provides a command-line system that can operate end to end. Developers can integrate their workflows into the tool for writing, testing, and debugging. Rather than acting as a personal assistant or editor, Claude Code’s agents can manage an entire task from start to finish, handling high-level design for whole software stacks with minimal human oversight. A recent example from a Google engineer helps explain why Claude Code has unnerved many Software as a Service (SaaS) firms. Earlier this month, Gemini API developer Jaana Dogan went viral after saying Claude Code reproduced a year’s worth of her team’s work in roughly one hour. If a year’s worth of work can be reduced to an hour, that poses an obvious threat to SaaS companies that rely on annual licensing revenue. Analysts at Oppenheimer pointed to that risk in their downgrade of creative-design giant Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) earlier this week, arguing that software has in some cases flipped from being an AI beneficiary to an AI victim as these tools advance. Three Software Stocks to Avoid as Sector-Wide Panic Ensues Central banks around the world have been increasing their gold holdings at an unprecedented pace, a shift that some analysts view as a signal of changing monetary priorities.
A new free report examines why gold has been gaining favor relative to government debt, what this trend may indicate about future policy decisions, and how individual investors can learn more about holding physical gold as part of a long-term strategy. Download the free report here Adobe shares are down more than 25% over the past 12 months, but it isn’t the only software name in trouble. The three stocks below face meaningful headwinds from the expanding role of AI in productivity and workflow automation. Salesforce: Agentic AI Risks Cannibalizing Key Business Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is one of the original SaaS giants, having gone public early enough to secure the coveted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ticker. Salesforce offers a broad suite of cloud-based business platforms and has long relied on substantial revenue from licensing its platform to large enterprises. But if a handful of AI agents can replace the work of hundreds of human reps, Salesforce risks losing a significant portion of that high-margin license revenue. The company has spent more than 20 years building a complex cloud ecosystem that some modern businesses now view as cumbersome, inefficient, and expensive. 
At a Glance - Software stocks have struggled over the last few months, especially those in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry.
- SaaS firms face substantial disruption from AI agents like Claude Code, which can automate entire workflows and eliminate the need for expensive software licenses.
- Salesforce, DocuSign, and Atlassian could be three industry stocks at risk of losing revenue to new AI tools.
CRM shares staged a brief rally in December, breaking above the 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) before the news of Adobe’s downgrade and the latest Claude Code update hit the market. On January 13, CRM fell about 7% in a single session, slipping back below both the 50-day and 200-day SMAs amid heavy selling. A bearish crossover appears to be forming on the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator as well, suggesting this selling pressure may not abate soon. DocuSign: A Middle Man at Risk of Being Cut Out DocuSign Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) was a major beneficiary of the work-from-home shift that began when COVID-19 hit U.S. shores. At the height of the pandemic, DOCU shares traded above $300 per share as investor enthusiasm sent its valuation sky-high. But like many pandemic-era winners, the company has faced headwinds since the Fed started raising rates, and now faces the risk of obsolescence. DocuSign’s struggles began years ago as e-signature capabilities were bundled into larger platforms such as Microsoft 365. On top of that, the company’s Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) could be bypassed entirely as AI agents become more customizable and clients look to negotiate and execute agreements within their own enterprise software. 
DOCU recently hit a new 52-week low and continues to face resistance at the 50-day SMA. Investors seeking a technical silver lining won’t find much: the Relative Strength Index (RSI) remains above the oversold threshold of 30, while selling volume is beginning to ramp up. Atlassian: Potential Obsolescence From Autonomous Workflows Atlassian Corp plc (NASDAQ: TEAM) is the Australian SaaS company behind widely used workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket, among others. If you collaborate with others on projects, you’ve likely used one or more of these tools. Although Atlassian has been aggressively integrating AI into its suite, some of its platforms risk becoming redundant as agents like Claude Code make it easier to centrally integrate and automate workflows. Atlassian licenses several standalone products, and the decline of any one could meaningfully affect the company’s bottom line. 
TEAM shares were rejected at the 50-day SMA and have fallen in seven of the last 10 trading days, losing more than 15% in the process. A bearish MACD crossover confirms the latest leg of the downtrend, and the stock risks erasing more than two years’ worth of gains if this trend continues.
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